1878 in Wales

1878 in Wales
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1878 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1878

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

March — The 'basic' process, enabling the use of phosphoric iron ore in steelmaking, developed at the failing Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public.^[1]
11 September — In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.
Founding of Dr Williams' School for Girls at Dolgellau.
Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.
The prison system in Wales is nationalised and brought under centralised government control.^[2]
Nanteos Cup first exhibited.

Football — The Welsh Cup competition takes place for the first time, and is won by Wrexham.

4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
30 January — Reg Skrimshire, Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died 1963)
24 February — Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
12 March — Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
21 March — Edwin Thomas Maynard, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
5 June — Billy O'Neill, Wales national rugby player (died 1955)
8 June — Evan Roberts, religious revivalist (died 1951)
20 June — Seymour J. Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
28 June — Evan Roberts, preacher (died 1951)
1 July — Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
27 August — Edgar Rees Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1962)
8 November — Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
date unknown
- Thomas Richards, historian (died 1962)
- Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), writer (died 1919)

↑ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009). "Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
↑ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.